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What bugs me a bit is AST is the only job not having free healing from their job jauge.
Basically AST whole jauge is a imperceptibly more potent SMN devotion that is 10 times harder to use and that doesn't help the job do AST main duty.
Personally, at this point, I'd prefer see seals work like lilies/aetherflow and divination just do a flat +5%
I think a Trait for Astrologian that restored a small percentage of MP like 2% or 3% for aligning cards with players correctly in regards to being ranged or melee would be interesting. It would be slightly more incentive to pay attention. Sleeve draw would be a small MP tool at that point and could maybe even have a secondary effect that negated the requirement for proper allocation to party members to restore MP allowing any card on anyone to do so since it is so time constrained or instead of negating the requirement for proper placement it could double the amount of MP restored while under it's effect.
What if draw would recover 250 mp?
Lv. 52 or 56 [Trait]: -Insert Name Here-
Description: Essential Dignity recovers 5% of maximum MP upon use.
Since SCHs get their other MP recovery abilities at level 45 and WHMs get them at 56 and 58 I thought it'd be fair for ASTs to get it around level 5x and choosing an ability that does not spend MP. Also, an ability with the same CD as the other two. I know SCHs would sacrifice Aetherflow and ideally use one charge of it whenever Aetherflow is available and they still have one stack but have nothing to heal (and, of course, this is all situational).
Other options have been mentioned already, CO (although it's a 60s CD) or CU, but this one would have to recover more MP since it's got double the CD Assize has. It could be something along the lines "recover 5%/10%/15% max MP upon having used this ability for 3s/6s/10s? Downside being not able to do anything else, though.
Everytime they draw they get 5% mana back. There. They draw twice per minute, so 10% per minute. That puts them equal to SCH via Aetherflow.
Easy solution.